TIFF ‘22 Coverage: ‘The Fablemans’
'The Fablemans' is Spielberg's most personal work to date, the cast delights audiences at the TIFF premiere.

Wesley Woods, an arrogant student, blessed with his good looks and charm, seduces his handsome professor Nick Capra. What starts off as an innocent affair leads to a chaotic web of emotions where betrayal, jealousy, obsession and addiction take over. Once Wesley realizes that Nick will never be entirely his, and that Nick is dedicated to his wife and stepson who are both struggling with addiction, it sets him off into a tailspin of emotions. Leaving him overwhelmed by rejection, Wesley is set on revenge. Just how far will he go to hurt the one man who shattered his fragile heart?
'The Fablemans' is Spielberg's most personal work to date, the cast delights audiences at the TIFF premiere.
This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.
The film didn’t have to be as long as it is. It just dragged on and on with scenes that had no substance. Every so often we get an action scene, and even those isn’t that fun.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my readings will reveal, they could be interpreted as transgender stories.
When they’re young, they’re America’s darlings but, when they become teens and adolescents, they’re instantly perceived as harbingers of immorality. They’re Lindsay Lohan, Macaulay Culkin, Justin Bieber, and Britney Spears. But, despite what many media outlets, politicians, and the general public may think, they are human beings above anything else. The new Billie Eilish documentary, Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, proves this — showing the trials, tribulations, and humanity when growing up with all the world’s eyes on you.
To say Hollywood has had a troubled past is the understatement of the century. In Ryan Murphy’s (American Horror Story) new Netflix series, Hollywood, that past is confronted and even rewritten.